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Developmental Math – An Open Curriculum Instructor Guide Unit 12 – Table of Contents Unit 12: Introduction to Factoring Learning Objectives 12.2 Instructor Notes 12.3 The Mathematics of Factoring Teaching Tips: Challenges and Approaches Additional Resources Instructor Overview 12.10 Tutor Simulation: Playing the Elimination Game Instructor Overview 12.11 Puzzle: Match Factors Instructor Overview 12.13 Project: Making Connections Common Core Standards 12.43 Some rights reserved. See our complete Terms of Use. Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE) 2012 To see these and all other available Instructor Resources, visit the NROC Network. 12.1 Developmental Math – An Open Curriculum Instructor Guide Unit 12 – Learning Objectives Unit 12: Factoring Lesson 1: Introduction to Factoring Topic 1: Greatest Common Factor Learning Objectives Find the greatest common factor (GCF) of monomials. Factor polynomials by factoring out the greatest common factor (GCF). Factor expressions with four terms by grouping. Lesson 2: Factoring Polynomials Topic 1: Factoring Trinomials Learning Objectives Factor trinomials with a leading coefficient of 1. Factor trinomials with a common factor. Factor trinomials with a leading coefficient other than 1. Topic 2: Factoring: Special Cases Learning Objectives Factor trinomials that are perfect squares. Factor binomials in the form of the difference of squares. Topic 3: Special Cases: Cubes Learning Objectives Factor the sum of cubes. Factor the difference of cubes. Lesson 3: Solving Quadratic Equations Topic 1: Solve Quadratic Equations by Factoring Learning Objectives Solve equations in factored form by using the Principle of Zero Products. Solve quadratic equations by factoring and then using the Principle of Zero Products. Solve application problems involving quadratic equations. 12.2 Developmental Math – An Open Curriculum Instructor Guide Unit 12 – Instructor Notes Unit 12: Factoring Instructor Notes The Mathematics of Factoring This unit builds upon students’ knowledge of polynomials learned in the previous unit. They will learn how to use the distributive property and greatest common factors to find the factored form of binomials and how to factor trinomials by grouping. Students will also learn how to recognize and quickly factor special products (perfect square trinomials, difference of squares, and the sum and difference of two squares). Finally, they’ll get experience combining these techniques and using them to solve quadratic equations. Teaching Tips: Challenges and Approaches This unit on factoring is probably one of the most difficult—students will spend a lot of time carrying out multi-step, complex procedures for what will often seem to be obscure purposes. At this stage in algebra, factoring polynomials may feel like busy work rather than a means to a useful end. It doesn’t help that students may remember having trouble with factoring from when they studied algebra in high school. Encourage students to think of factoring as the reverse of multiplying polynomials that was learned previously. Then, a problem multiplying polynomials was given and students were asked to calculate the answer. In this unit, the answer is given and the students need to come up with the question. Sound familiar? In a way, factoring is like playing the popular game show Jeopardy. Greatest Common Factor Finding the greatest common factor of whole numbers should be reviewed before finding the GCF of polynomials. Then it is a logical step to demonstrate how to factor expressions by using the distributive property in reverse to pull out the greatest common monomial from each term in a polynomial: 12.3 Developmental Math – An Open Curriculum Instructor Guide [From Lesson 1, Topic 1, Topic Text] Remind your students to pay particular attention to signs as it is easy to make a mistake with them, and also to check their final answers by multiplying. Grouping After your students are comfortable pulling the GCF out of a polynomial, it is time to teach them a new method of factoring–factoring by grouping. Begin by introducing the technique on 4-term polynomials. It's fairly easy for students to understand how to break these polynomials into groups of two and then factor each pair. Trinomials are trickier. Indeed, many textbooks do not use grouping for factoring trinomials, and instead use essentially a guess and check method. While factoring by grouping may initially be a more complex procedure, it has many significant advantages in the long term and is used in this course. The hardest part is figuring out how to rewrite the middle term of a trinomial as an equivalent binomial. Students will need to see this demonstrated repeatedly, as well as get a lot of practice working on their own. Even after they grasp the basic idea, they'll often have trouble deciding which signs to use. It will be helpful to supply them with a set of tips like the one below: 12.4 Developmental Math – An Open Curriculum Instructor Guide [From Lesson 2, Topic 1, Topic Text] Factoring by grouping has the great advantage of working for all trinomials. It also provides a method to determine when a polynomial cannot be factored. (This is not obvious when students are using the guess and check method.) Sometimes students don’t remember to look for the greatest common factor of all the terms of a polynomial before trying to factor by grouping. This isn’t wrong, but the larger numbers can make the work more difficult. Plus the student has to remember to look for a greatest common factor at the end anyway. In order to illustrate this, have students factor 9x2 + 15x − 36 without pulling out the greatest common factor of 3 -- they will notice that the numbers are cumbersome. After this, have them try again, this time factoring out the 3 as the first step. They will see the benefits. Once the grouping method is mastered, let your students use it to factor perfect square trinomials. Hopefully they'll soon see a pattern, though you will probably have to nudge them along. Eventually, they should learn to recognize if a trinomial is a perfect square, and be able to factor it without grouping. After the rule for factoring a perfect square trinomial has been developed, set them to finding one for factoring the difference of two squares. This rule is usually very easy for students to figure out. Then have them try to factor the sum of two squares, such as x2 + 4. Make sure they understand that this cannot be done. 12.5 Developmental Math – An Open Curriculum Instructor Guide Intermediate algebra students will also need to know how to factor the sum and difference of two cubes. They are sure to have trouble remembering the formulas. Try pointing out that the formulas are really the same except for signs: A binomial in the form a3 + b3 can be factored as (a + b)(a2 – ab + b2) A binomial in the form a3 – b3 can be factored as (a – b)(a2 + ab + b2) The sign in between the two cubes is the same sign as in the first factor in the formulas. The next sign is the opposite of the first sign and the last sign is always positive. Now “all” they have to remember are the variable parts of the formulas. Easy! Factoring Quadratic Equations The last topic in this unit is solving quadratic equations by factoring and applying the zero products rule. Begin by solving an example where the polynomial is already factored and set equal to zero, such as the following: [From Lesson 3, Topic 1, Worked Example 1] Now give your students a problem like "Solve x2 + x – 12 = 0 for x." Ask them how they would attempt to solve for x. Someone will suggest factoring the left hand side by grouping and they will be on their way. Then pose the problem x2 + x – 12 = 18. Make sure your students know that in order for the principle of zero products to work, the trinomial must be set equal to 0. Sometimes students are 12.6 Developmental Math – An Open Curriculum Instructor Guide so focused on new techniques, they forget basic principles for rewriting an equation and they may need to be prodded to add (or subtract) something to (or from) both sides so that one side equals zero. Be careful -- once students get into the hang of applying the zero products rule to solve equations, they may start trying it on expressions as well. For instance, if a problem says to factor x2 + x – 12, some will do so and then go ahead and calculate that x = -4 or 3. Remind your students to only do what a problem asks – factor when it says to factor and solve when it says to solve. The Sense Test Application problems have an extra requirement that solving given equations do not -- answers have to make sense based on their context. Consider the following scenario: [From Lesson 3, Topic 1, Topic Text] 12.7 Developmental Math – An Open Curriculum Instructor Guide 1 Mathematically, it is true that t can be either 4 or . But logically, only one of these answers 2 works -- since t represents the number of seconds after the rocket has taken off, it can’t be a negative number. The rocket can't hit the ground before it was launched. Teach students that when they do application problems like this, they need to check not only the math but also the sense of their results. Keep in Mind Factoring trinomials and solving quadratic equations are difficult topics. As soon as you say “factoring,” some students will recall hours of erasing before correct answers were found through trial and error. Reassure students that while the factoring by grouping method takes longer to use when working simple problems, it really will make solving complex problems quicker.
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